This activity teaches children six question words: who, what, when, where, why and how.

Resource by Kelly Shivinski, Catholic Academy of West Buffalo. Includes Reading for Meaning questioning, vocabulary rating, character analysis, and synthesis tasks. Also includes CCLS for 4th grade.

This article provides an overview of metacognition, suggestions for teaching elementary students to be metacognitive about their reading, and links to professional resources.

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Denise Mixdorf in collaboration with Eileen Barks and Caryn Ziettlow as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for high school, grades 9-12, ELA students. Students will use a text or their writing to analyze the author's or speaker's word choice. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard:  Reading 12.1.5.d It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students approximately 90 minutes to complete.Here is the direct link to the Google Doc: Six Traits: Word Choice Lesson Plan and Six Traits: Word Choice Google Slides Resource

This lesson plan has a guide to working in groups and with peers in a positive manner. This also has background of the importance of knowing and understanding a stories outcome and mentions how to make a bar and picture graph. One the second day, for evaluation students will be in groups making a short story and creating a graph in their story. Brain break activities are also included to encourage physical movement. 

By reading a short book aloud, Rick Kleine models for his students how their initial theories of character traits can change over time. Using peer discussion and class participation, the kids are engaged throughout, giving them what Rick hopes will be a life-long love of reading.

While students read silently in class, Rick has time to focus on individual students and their particular reading challenges. He works on vocabulary, comprehension and reading speed, using a variety of methods to help his students improve.

By conferring individually with his students, Rick Kleine gives out tasks tailored to their needs and reading goals. Because his students have differing abilities, he keeps track of each of their goals in order to follow up with them each day to monitor their progress.

Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books "Chicken Sunday" and "Rechenka's Egg", complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.

This Module describes how teachers can incorporate vocabulary and reading comprehension skills instruction into content-area lessons and will introduce you to a variety of effective practices—including the use of graphic organizers—to help students better understand what they read (est. completion time: 1.5 hours).

This Module examines some of the reasons that adolescents struggle with content-area text and overviews effective strategies teachers can use to improve the vocabulary and comprehension skills of students with a wide range of abilities and across a variety of subjects (est. completion time: 1.5 hours).

This lesson is designed for learners in adult basic education (low and high level adult secondary education). The purpose of this lesson is to teach a step-wise method that involves increased complexity reading material that assists learners with building a staircase type strategy for reading scientific and technology text proficiently. The lesson topic will include guiding students in how to ask themselves questions before during and after a passage. The questions will be used to build a staircase of information that can be compared to what they already know and personal experiences. This strategy will not only assist with appropriately answer reading passage questions but can be applied to reading and understanding complex texts for higher education and documents in the workplace.

In this seminar, you will be learning the difference between retelling and summarizing a fictional story. You will be given questions to ask yourself to help you pick out the most important details in a fictional story. It will introduce the Somebody Wanted But So Then strategy to help you summarize stories you have read. You will be applying past knowledge to new situations. Some activities you will be doing include creating a comic strip summary of story, as well as, creating a project of your choosing to summarize a story you have read.StandardsCC.1.3.4.ADetermine a theme of a text from details in the text; summarize the text.

For teachers in K-Grade 5 classrooms, the author of this article reviews the reading comprehension strategies known as Summarizing and Synthesizing. She provides links to web sites and to a book that will provide more background information and lessons. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which focuses on the seven essential principles of climate science.

In this project, you will explore a real-world problem, and then work through a series of steps to analyze that problem, research ways the problem could be solved, then propose a possible solution to that problem. Often, there are no specific right or wrong solutions, but sometimes one particular solution may be better than others. The key is making sure you fully understand the problem, have researched some possible solutions, and have proposed the solution that you can support with information / evidence.Begin by reading the problem statement in Step 1. Take the time to review all the information provided in the statement, including exploring the websites, videos and / or articles that are linked. Then work on steps 2 through 8 to complete this problem-based learning experience.

The importance of reading aloud to children is an established tenet of reading instruction. This lesson supports the language development and reading comprehension of kindergarten through second graders. Through the use of the text talk strategy, students explain, develop, and expand story ideas. This lesson is designed to help students learn how to gain meaning from words that are taken out of their original context.

This seminar will help you understand how to use text features to reach a mastery level of understanding of an article, text, or other printed item. You will be looking at effective ways to gather information or data from text features, as well as the importance of their accuracy, which are to important “habits of mind.”  You will also have the opportunity to create, watch, and read materials that will deepen your understanding of text features, and how they improve comprehension for you the reader.StandardsCC.1.2.3.GUse information gained from text features to demonstrate understanding of a text.

Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir "Night" and then take turns assuming the teacher role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.

Visualizing is a reading comprehension strategy that can be applied to science-themed texts, according to this article from Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, a magazine that integrates literacy and science skills instruction. The author identifies six online resources that have activities, lesson plans, and more information.

In this lesson students will practice comprehension skills as they make predictions while listening to the story and recall and sequence events. They will understand how a healthy diet and exercise can increase the likelihood of physical and mental wellness.